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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

How to find vulnerabilities in your WordPress with WPScan

March 25, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Vulnerability scanners are useful tools for administrators and security analysts alike. For the casual WordPress user tools like WPScan may look excessive and complicated for their knowledge, they just need their blog, web page, whatever they’re doing up and running. Any complex administration bothers them to the max, and there are good and valid reasons […]

How to upload a FreeBSD custom image on DigitalOcean

March 15, 2022 By Albert Valbuena

Due to DigitalOcean not releasing ready to use images for FreeBSD 13 at this time, and since I opened a ticket a couple of months ago without a strong positive message from DigitalOcean supporting FreeBSD 13, I’ve decided to make use of their custom image upload service and give it a go. I must say […]

How to install MariaDB in FreeBSD

April 26, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

MariaDB is a derivative from the world-famous enterprise class MySQL database. The MySQL founder is Michael Widenius, also known as Monty. He created the project, it worked out for some time, it caught Sun’s attention and they bought it. Then Oracle bought Sun and knowing Larry everyone left running without looking what was left behind. […]

How to install Apache in FreeBSD with pkgng

April 26, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

The Apache Web Server is one of the most widely deployed web servers around the world. There are new and powerful alternatives you may have heard of, such as NGINX which seems to be the coolest thing around lately. There are meaningful differences between the two. Both are great but for example Apache has set […]

How to install the ELK stack on CentOS 8

April 30, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

The ELK stack stands for Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. These three pieces of software are very useful since each brings a powerful capability that in combination is just great to use. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash can process data from multiple sources. Kibana allows to visualize data in a graphic manner. These […]

Donation Time 2020

December 26, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

This 2020 has been a difficult year for everyone. Because of this difficulty and the opportunities I had the chance to take, I’ve been able to contribute back to the open source community, not just with content here in Adminbyaccident.com, advocacy for a few tools such as my favorite OS (FreeBSD) and the usual mouthful […]

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – April 2020

April 17, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

For the first time here at adminbyaccident.com I will share some information about Windows patching that I hope can shed some light and help people on deciding what to patch and how quickly to patch. Digesting Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday releases is always tricky. The amount of information is overwhelming and since almost every company on […]

How to secure FreeBSD (server minimal edition)

April 22, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

This is a very simple and easy to follow guide on securely administer your FreeBSD server. That said I am not a security expert although I’ve gained some knowledge as time goes by. Not pretending to be the definitive guide this article is an introduction on how to secure FreeBSD in which I will tackle […]

List of Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

September 1, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

Vulnerability CVE Exploit name Public vulnerability name Firmware changes Spectre 2017-5753 Variant 1 Bounds Check Bypass (BCB) No Spectre 2017-5715 Variant 2 Branch Target Injection (BTI) Yes Meltdown 2017-5754 Variant 3 Rogue Data Cache Load (RDCL) No Spectre-NG 2018-3640 Variant 3a Rogue System Register Read (RSRE) Yes Spectre-NG 2018-3639 Variant 4 Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) […]

How to install WPScan on FreeBSD

March 22, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Vulnerability scanners are useful tools to find issues on systems, networks and the like. WPScan is dedicated to find vulnerabilities on WordPress installations. A short tutorial as an introduction to the tool has been published here. So if you are interested on the tool and on FreeBSD, let’s dig on this how to install WPScan […]

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